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Mai or Tora?

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SabsMatthews · 20/04/2017 09:47

Our 2nd child is due in July.

Mai or Tora?

Thank you.

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Floggingmolly · 21/04/2017 11:59

How is Mai pronounced? If it's May, she'll spell out her unique version for the rest of her life.
If it's My, it's sounds awful. Here's my daughter, My...

user1471547428 · 21/04/2017 11:56

Tora for me is The Torah. I also have a friend Tora short for Victoria. I think I prefer Mai.

greeeen · 20/04/2017 19:19

I like Mai best.

User2468 · 20/04/2017 19:05

I have a relative called Mai, short for Mavis!

Reow · 20/04/2017 19:03

Isn't Mai pronounced m-i without the a sound?

I know a couple of Japanese ladies with that pronounciation and it's much nicer than the May sounding version

Reow · 20/04/2017 19:01

I like both!

I never like MN baby suggestions but these are pretty and interesting without being mental or pretentious

Oriunda · 20/04/2017 19:00

Tora Tora Tora is a film depicting the bombing of Pearl Harbour. It was the codeword the Japanese used. Tora = tiger.

Otherwise I'd think of the Jewish Torah.

Go for Torey (Victoria)?

Mrsknackered · 20/04/2017 18:57

If Mai, is 'my' than definitely Mai.
It's so sweet.

AliceKlar · 20/04/2017 15:37

Being Jewish my immediate thought was Torah as in the Jewish bible. I do prefer it to Mai tho for the same reason as Wowser. It's a lovely name but there's just soooooo many.

WowserBowser · 20/04/2017 15:25

I just think Mai is so over done in double barreled names, that I'm bored of it. So - Tora. Out of those two

LiviaBC · 20/04/2017 14:49

Tora just makes me think of The Torah, sorry

Kadieplus3 · 20/04/2017 14:36

Mai :)

Rockaby · 20/04/2017 14:31

Mai

Sophronia · 20/04/2017 14:30

Mai if pronounced like "my", otherwise Tora.

GeillisTheWitch · 20/04/2017 14:16

Mai is nice. Isn't Tora what matadors shout at bulls just before they stab them to death?

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 20/04/2017 14:14

Mai

user1492681519 · 20/04/2017 11:50

Mai is nicer :)

SuperBeagle · 20/04/2017 09:57

Is Mai pronounced like "may" or like "my"?